7 August 20146 August 2014 Plant plastics reach for the stars Researchers in Finland have transformed rice starch into a temporally stable, optically transparent, biodegradable plastic with a high degree of mechanical strength and good thermal resistance
11 July 20144 August 2014 An efficient and stable star-shaped plasticizer for starch: cyclic phosphazene with hydrogen bonding aminoethoxy ethanol side chains Using rice starch, Finnish researchers have made sustainable, biodegradable polymers that could be used in food packaging
15 October 201314 October 2013 Finland to lead the way as a designer of cellulose-based products Joint research project DWoC: Scientists develop cellulose-based products suitable for technical textiles and consumer products
9 December 2011 Chemicals and biofuel from wood biomass Aalto university develops method to produce butanol from wood biomass
